Robert Vaughan - Sr. AssociatE

Business Accomplishments:
Mr. Vaughan has 20+ years in the IT industry – a career which spans pioneering the first world class end-to-end manufacturing facility to applying instructional design/technology best practices in spearheading the company’s’ web-development division. His blend of strategic project management, practical business analytical skills, and technical proficiency has keyed the successful delivery of enterprise-wide projects in various industries. The company’s 20+ year growth is attributed to an entrepreneurial culture driven by Robert that continues to deliver consulting and training solutions solving client’s critical business issues. Mr. Vaughan believes winning companies are both learning and teaching organizations. He is well-sought after because of his innovative approach to educational leadership in driving the development and delivery of human capital development programs and technical leadership in providing information management and movement solutions.

Education:
George Mason University - MEd. in Instruction Technology
Winston-Salem State University - BS in Computer Technology

Business Accomplishments:
Dr. Frank L. Harper, Jr., Ph.D., MBA. MSIE, PMP, CSSGB, ITIL, is Founder, Managing Director-Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) for Intelligent Systems Services LLC. He serves as our Chief Business Process Strategist whose leadership and solutions-based thinking approach (P.R.O.G.R.E.S.S.™) has influenced the process improvement, technology, and training solutions in governments (local, state, federal) and companies (small and Fortune 50/100/1000/Global 2000) with combined budgets over $US 5 Billion generating combined revenues and savings over $US 30 Billion.
He is acknowledged as a leading program/project management expert who during a 30+ year career has been a technology executive, strategist, engineer, researcher, guest speaker, corporate trainer, consultant, and author. Dr. Harper has been featured in various media for his trailblazing success delivering innovative process, technology and training solutions. Project Management Institute (PMI), the leading project management organization in the world, applauded his leadership of a global virtual team assuring the quality of PMI’s Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3)-a maturity model to help organizations translate strategy into successful outcomes consistently and predictably.
Dr. Harper’s work as scholar-practitioner teaching, advising, informing, guiding business modernization along with strategic information management and movement initiatives allows him to offer comprehensive knowledge of fundamental business disciplines and technology enablers allowing management to act and react to the dynamics of their marketplace.

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS:

Columbia Commonwealth University
- PhD, with Distinction, in Administration and Management
University of New Haven
- MBA in Marketing
- MS in Industrial Engineering
- BS in Computer Technology (Cum Laude)
- Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Project Management Researcher
- OPM3 Leadership - Quality Assurance & Navigation
- Certified in Foundation of IT Service Management (ITIL)
- Certified Six Sigma Green Belt
Formal Training:
- Common Business Objectives for Information Technology (COBIT)
- Oracle Certified Professional/Expert Training
- Earned Value Project Management
- The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF
-Activity Based Costing Management
-Information Engineering
-Organizational Change Management
- Six Sigma Black Belt

Business Accomplishments:
K. Michael Slater is on of the nation's leading executive coach and management consultant. Over the past ten years, he has developed strategies and processes for such companies as AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Glaxo Smith Kline, Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies, Enron, Home Depot, Prudential Securities, New York University Medical School, NCR, KPMG, Wilson Learning, and the US Postal Services, just to name a few.

He focuses on methods of advising diversity and management in a way that provides a safe and welcomed environment of dialogue and is based on real business results. His area of expertise include economics, emerging technologies, human relations, Professional development, conflict resolution, EEO/AA, and organization behavior. He has lectured at over 100 universities and colleges as well as numerous conferences and conventions. Dr. Slater has appeared both in the electronic and print media as a national and international expert on cross-cultural issues and business.